Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 May 1938 — Page 1

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SUGGEST NEW HOSPITAL FOR INSANE FELONS

Segregation Plan Offered as Governor Calls for Probe of Salaries.

BUILDING

Also Would House Defective And Infirm Inmates of State Institutions.

Segregation of the criminally insane, defective delinquents and infirm inmates of State penal and feebleminded institutions into a new $2,000,000 structure is beingf cinsidered by Federal and Indiana penal authorities, it was learned today. ; At the same time, Governor Townsend ordered the State Welfare Department to complete a salary survey of employees at all State institutions, saying the order was not a direct result of the death of a Madison State Hospital for the Insane patient after a scuffle with four attendants. The Welfare Department is investigating the death. The proposal for a new institution would have to be passed upon by the 1939 Legislature, Thurman Gottschalk, State Welfare Director and Department of State Institutions head, said. The purpose of change would be to relieve overcrowded conditions, particularly at the State Prison at Michigan City, and provide improved administration, he said. Requests Rejected

the proposed

According to State Budget Director Edward Brennan, requests have been made for erection of a new wing of the Michigan City prison in the criminally insane section. These requests have been rejected by the State Budget Committee, he said. The Michigan City institution now houses approximately 2200 felons and 500 criminally insane. The two divisions are separated by a wall, but are on the same site, Dr. Patrick H. Weeks, staff physician, is charged with treating and caring for both classes of prisoners. Ir. Brennan said there ‘have been arguments in the past over administrative methods for the criminally insane. All other State institutions housing insane are directed by physicians. The doctor at Michigan City, however, is under the authority of the warden. Mr. Gottschalk said the new proposal for segregation probably would be contained in the recommendations to be made by Federal investigators who have beeen conducting a survey of Indiana institutions.

The New Jersey Plan

These investigators were provided for under the Federal Prison Industries Reorganization Act, he said. “Establishment of an institution to care for the criminally insane, defective delinquents and infirm inmates, all of whom need hospital care, is known as the New Jersey plan,” Mr, Gottschalk said. “None of these three classes is able to do» any large amount of work at the institution.” When State officials decided to enlarge the Muscatatuck Colony ror the Feeble Minded, Butlerville, into a major State institution, it was

suggested that defective delinquents | } { Isabel Edmark, 22, whose baby son is |

be housed in a separate structure near that site. Mr. Gottschalk said this proposal Jater grew to include housing of all three classes of inmates in an institution there. ‘A recent check shows that most of the inmates of this class come from the northern section of the state,” he said. “If a new institution was built. it probably would be placed in the north.” He said a separate institution, with a power plant, administration building and proper hospital facilities, would cost about $2,000.000. A physician probably would be named superintendent, he said.

Federal Funds Possible

Federal funds cannot be used for construction of additions at Michigan City, because prison labor is available, Mr. Brennan said. However, it might be possible to get Federal funds to erect a separate hospital for the criminally insane, he said. In the past the Legislature in making appropriations for prison buildings has voted funds only for material, he said. The Federal work projects are designed primarily to aid re-employment, he said, and would not be used to purchase materials for prison labor. Mr. Brennan and Mr. Gottschalk said that the discussions were in “formative stage” and no detailed plans for the proposed institution had been made. At the same time Mr. Gottschalk, (Turn to Page Three)

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VOLUME 50—NUMBER 51

They Wanted To Be Racers; Lose in Debut

State Police today held for Juvenile Court officers six Indianapolis boys alleged to have stolen a car and a truck last night to seek their fortunes in the West. Police said that they captured the boys in the truck after a wild

chase through Indianapolis streets and later arrested the boys who had been in the auto at their homes, where they fled after they knew they were being followed. After the arrests, police said the boys confessed they were bitten by the adventure bug and that they were headed for Salt Lake City. where they hoped to break into the midget auto racing game.

BABY MAY WIN PARTIAL SIGHT

‘Good Chance,” Say Specialists; Child Comfortable; Mother Recovers.

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CHICAGO, May 10 (U. P.).—Six-weeks-old Helaine Judith Colan ap- | parently was recovering today from an operation which medical au- | thorities believed has halted spread |of a dread cancerous eye growth land paved the way for them to | save at least part of her vision. A week ago her parents had abandoned hope, certain that she would die or be doomed to a life |of blindness. Yesterday her left eye was removed during a 13nfinute operation which a council of 10 eminent specialists had decreed was her only chance for life. Today, Dr. Robert H. Good, who performed the operation, said the baby still has the sight of her right eye. He and Dr. Cassius B. Rogers agreed that there was a “good chance” that at least partial vision of the remaining eve may be saved by X-ray or radium treatments. They said a small tumor already has attacked the eye. If the disease has progressed too far, that eye also will have to be removed, but the physicians said there was hope that it can be treated. _* Mother May Visit Child Dr. Good said the baby stood the operation well and lost only half a teaspoonful of blood. “She is in fine condition,” said. ; “The baby is resting comfortably,” a bulletin, issued at 7:30 a. m. said. “Her condition has shown no noticeable change.” Attorney Samuel Hoffman, family spokesman, said the baby’s mother, | Estelle, 23, who had been in a state | of collapse, had returned to normal. | The father, Dr. Herman Colan, 30-year-old dentist, said he and his wife were ‘“‘eternally grateful” to the physicians who aided them. The specialists upon whom the | life or death decision rested, con-

ferred an hour and 15 minutes be- | to |

| fore they voted unanimously

| operate.

Mr. Hoffman said Mrs. Colan in- |

‘Another Chicago Family ‘Refuses Operation CHICAGO, May 10 (U.P.).—Mrs.

|a victim of retinal glioma, said today she would stand unwaveringly | by her decision to let the child die | rather than submit him to an operation which would mean a lifetime of i blindness. The baby, Robert, 22 months c¢ld, [1s nearly blind now. Physicians said [the disease is spreading swiftly to{ward his brain and will bring death [ within three to five years, unless his eyes are removed. Mrs. Edmark and her husband. Richard, 26, an insurance ageut, said they believed it is for the boy's good that no operation be performed. “The doctors have done all they can except take out the eyes,” she said, “and I won't permit that. What would happen if he lost us? No one wants anyone that is a burden. Who would care for him?”

FORECAST: Fair tonight and tomorrow; not much

change in temperature.

TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1938

U. 5. SHIP SENT TOAMOY AFTER JAPS' WARNING

THE FOREIGN SITUATION GENEVA-—Russia and New Zealand balk Ethiopian move; China pleads for aid. PARIS — France bluntly asks which side Poland would fake in war, ROME—Nazi and Fascist Parties agree to co-operate. HENDAYE — Spanish Loyalists save railroad to France.

WASHINGTON—Neutrality law change held unlikely. HONGKONG — Japanese bomb Chinese coast city, try to land troops. BERLIN—Unwritten military alliance between dictators reported.

City of 250,000 Reported Afire

HONGKONG, May 10 (U. P).— | A United States warship sailed for Amoy tonight to evacuate Americans endangered by a terrific Japanese aerial and naval bombardment of the island port, off the East China coast. U. S. Naval authorities ¢ispatched the ship in response to an appeal by radio for assistance from Leland C. Altaffer, United States Consul at | Amoy. The Consul indicated that [the city. had been bombarded throughout the day. | (According to records at Washington there were 26 Americans and 23 Filipinos in Amoy as of March 1) | pg. giq not propose any specific A private radio message to a |. nomic program of his own, but shipping firm from a ship in the |g ted six fundamental points of port said that a large section of | National Progressivism: the city “is going up in smoke.”| y "pecdom of worship; free | Chinese reports said that 18 Japa- press and free assemblage: guar- | nese planes dropped more than 200 {antee to each citizen of an effective | bombs while a dozen Japanese... in his political and economic | warships shelled the port. | tife. - The CHineSe reporued walt a large | 2. Jobs for all at useful work for | fire had started in the city, which wages commensurate with the nahas a population of nearly 250.000 |; ful) productive capacity. | persons. Civilians ran through the 3. Adequately supported “public | streets in panic as the shells and education and an opportunity for bombs crashed at short intervals. American youth to find a place in | Under cover of the shelling the the country’s life and work. Japanese began attempts to land.| 4 protection of workers from | They claimed to have put troops | fear of want in their declining ashore, but admitted that they had years. met stiff resistance from the Chi- 5. Guaranteeing of the right of | nese defenders. co-operative effort and collective | Before opening the attack the | pargaining. Japanese planes dropped leaflets on | 6, Maintenance of a Government the town warning foreigners to |strong enough to suppress the lawevacuate and foreign ships to leave | less, wise enough to see beyond selfthe harbor. ish desires of the moment, just In naval circles it was believed,| enough to consider the whole peothat thé Japanese attempted to |ple’s welfare. occupy Amoy in an effort to divert | To those ends, La Follette sumChinese attention to the island, |moned voters regardless of class, which is 500 miles south of Shang- | creed or previous political affiliahai, because of the scheduled move- | tion, exclaiming that “the time has ment of 500,000 troops in Kwangsi | come when citizens who believe in Province to the northern front, democracy must unite for political where the Japanese were attempt- | action to solve the problems of mod-

ing to storm the Lunghai Railroad. | ern industrialism.”

Eight hundred thousand of [yy ARE KILLED, MANY

NATIONAL

National Progressive :

Program Outlined WASHINGTON, May 10 (U. P.).—| Senator Robert M. La Follette Jr. (Prog. Wis.) charging that reaction- | ary Democrats threaten now to| wreck the “Liberal” Roosevelt New | Deal, called on voters today to unite | for political action under the new | standard of the National Progres- | sives of America. | Although paying tribute to Mr. | Roosevelt for good intentions and an | “incomparable ability to present the essence of complex economic problems to the voters,” he complained that the Democratic Party had not been purged of anti-New Dealers. He sharply remarked that “most business men and political leaders ignored or minimized” the 1937 business slump. Senator La Follette's address, de- | livered over a nation-wide radio | network, was his first formal endorsement of the new party launched last month by his brother, Governor Philip F. La Follette of | Wisconsin.

Outlines Principles

forcements arriving constantly, intrenched themselves in the Suchow area in southern Shantung Province for a gigantic defense of the Lunghai road, along which runs the Chi-

Debate Started on Bill To Create 4 Million Jobs; La Follette Lists Policies

@ RECOVERY BILL debate begins in House, SENATOR LA FOLLETTE gives support to Progressive Party. WAGE-HOUR BILL foes in Rules Committee weaken, REORGANIZATION BILL responsibility refused by leaders. SENATOR PEPPER'S victory encourages New Dealers (Page 5).

China's best fighters, aided by rein-

nese “Hindenberg Line.” Japanese communiques made no claims of substantial advances at any point along the railroad today. | Chinese authorities were confident they would halt the invaders before

‘More Than 100 Trapped in British Explosion.

they reached the road, but confirmed advances which the Japanese claimed to have made at the start of the new offensive yesterday.

CHESTERFIELD, England, May 10 (U. P.) .—Seventy-two miners were | killed today in explosions which | wrecked the Markham Colliery of | the Stavely Coal & Iron Co. and | trapped more than 100 workers underground. The first blast at 5:45 a. m, was followed by another at 8 a. m. Throughout the day rescue workers sent up body after body, many of them burned by the explosions. The shafts were filled with dead- | ly carbon monoxide. Late today the death toll was fixed at 70. Many others were in hospitals suffering from serious . injuries. Relatives and friends, who rushed to the scene of the disaster, watched fearfully at the pit head while miners, stripped to the waist, went down into the shafts in relays to bring up their comrades. After the second explosion it was decided to seal up one section of the mine. Rescue squads effected telephonic contact with the men below and a flow of air was maintained to those who were still alive

Italo-German War

Alliance Rumored

BERLIN, May 10 (U. P.).—The| visit of Fuehrer Adolf Hitler to] ! Rome effected a new consolidation of the Rome-Berlin axis ta)itamount to an unwritten military alliance, German correspondents reported today. Berlin prepared an enthusiastic welcome for Hitler tonight on his return from Rome. “It is inconceivable that states standing for the reorganization of Europe would not recognize the community of their fate and the necessity to give each other mutual assistance—even to the last extreme,” the Hamburg Fremdenblatt said. The Boersen Zeitung said that the outside world should “realize that the two leaders and nations are one and they are strong. The worid knows that Herr Hitler and Sig.

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AFFAIRS

Republicans to Seek

Decentralized Relief (Editorial, Page 10)

WASHINGTON, May 10 (U. P.) — The House Appropriations Committee today favorably reported a $3,054,425,000 recovery bill which it said would create jobs for 4,135,000 persons next year, The House began immediate debate on the measure, which makes direct appropriations of $2,519,425, - 000 for lending and spending under President Roosevelt's five billion dollar program. The measure also | carriers authorizations of $535.000.- | 000. In addition to jobs carried by the | pending bill, the committee said, the | Civilian Conservation Corps, which | already has received its 1939 funds, | wiil employ 300,000 youths, and the | Federal program for public roads, | parks, flood control and similar | work, will provide employment for | another 500,000, making a grand] total of 4,935,000 persons receiving | jobs in the next fiscal year. y The committee gave a breakdown | of the employment as follows: WPA «wuuensessnnes «ees 2,800,000 NYA . 275,000 Federal Buildings..... 60,000 1,000,000

The report showed that the public works program contemplates 7000 | to 7500 projects at an average cost | of $240.000. The PWA at present | has 2700 applications on file. New| projects totaling from 4300 to 4800 may be started. 20,000,000 on Relief

The Committee submitted an analysis of persons receiving relief | showing that last March an undu- | plicated total of 20,100,000 persons | were being aided from various Gov- | ernment sources. This total compared with a peak | in February, 1934, of 7,900,000 house- | holds, including 27.600.000 persons | receiving relief, and a low in Sep- | tember, 1937, of 4,800.000 householders including 14,000,000 persons. The Appropriations Committee reported a joint resolution carrying & supplemental appropriation of $2,500,000 to the Social Security Board for administration of state unemployment compensation in 1938. In its first action today the House approved this unanimously. Republican opponents indicated that they ‘would concentrate their fight on the relief program, demanding administration by the by the states. Rep. John Taber (R. N. Y.),, ranking minority member of the Deficiency Subcommittee which drafted the bill, charged that “waste is tremendous” under the present system. “We cannot longer permit greedy | politicians to administers relief | without bringing to our country |

| complete disaster,” he said.

Home Action Not Certain House leaders, who conferred yes- | terday with Mr. Roosevelt, hoped to speed the measure to the Senate but

HEATER USERS

City Will Insist on Use of

| City Combustion Engineer said to-

Matter Ind.

Entered as Second-Class at Postoffice, Indianapolis,

T0 BE WARNED ABOUT SMOKE

Smokeless Fuel, Says Engineer Clinehens.

Owners and Operators of Flats to Be Informed Of Ordinance.

Apartment house owners and operators are to be warned that burning anything but smokeless fuel this summer in hot water heaters is a direct violation of the City Smoke Ordinance, J. W. Clinehens,

day. Apartment buildings usually are | equipped with coal burning hot | water heaters and have in the past | been consistent violators of the smoke ordinance, Mr. Clinehens said. A survey to determine the number of violations is to start at once, | Mr. Clinehens said. “It will give us a picture of how serious the problem is and aid us in our summer campaign in smoke abatement,” he said. Each apartment owner or operator will be informed of the section of the smoke ordinance which | reads, “It shall be unlawful to use | other than smokeless fuel in any | water heater or combination water | heater and garbage bummer unless equipped with a smoke preventing device which is capable of insuring conformity with the smoke ordinance.” The common definitign o smokeless fuel is any solid matter which contains 20 per cent or less of tar and the by-products of coal which burn without producing smoke, Mr, Clinehens said.

WARNS OWNERS OF CENTER PROPERTY

Assessor Threatens to Fix Valuations Himself,

Arbitrary property valuations will be entered against Center Township taxpayers who fail to return assessment lists, Assessor James F. Cunningham warned today. He made the statement as he revealed that approximately 60,000 lists have been returned so far, and added that this is about 2000 short of the total for 193%. “We have failed to receive returns from quite a few property owners, especially some who own apartment houses,” he said. “In one case we | were practically told to get out of the place.” He explained that if no return is

{ received, the law provides that an |

HOME

FINAL

PRICE THREE CENTS

SAFETY PATROL

BOOSTED TO AID VACATION DRIVE

Six Motoreycle Officers

Added to Traffic Force

As School, Police Officials Map Program for Pupils.

NEED 40 MORE, MORRISSEY CLAIMS

Campaign Is Intended to Keep Children Off Streets; Supervision Stressed and

Help of Par

ents Asked.

While school and accident prevention officials mapped

plans to promote a safe vacati

on for Indianapolis school chil

dren, the Safety Board today increased the motorcycle police force to the largest in the city’s history. - The Board also announced it may place motorcycle offi-

cers on patrol duty from mid morning violations. officers on duty from midnigh

night to 3 a. m. to curb early

At present, there are no motorcycle

t to 6 a. m.

William Evans, School Safety Director, said he and Lieut. Lawrence McCarty, Police Accident Prevention Bureau

SITDOWN STRIKE

RULED ILLEGAL

Hlinois Appellate Court Upholds Jail Terms for C. I. 0. Men. OTTAWA, Ill, May 10 (U.P). —

The sitdown strike is illegal and the Wagner Labor Relations Act is

| no protection of strikers who violate |

State laws, the Second Illinois Appellate Court held today in a unanimous decision of the three Democratic judges. The Court upheld the Lake County Circuit Court in imposing fines and jail terms upon two C. I. O. organizers and 37 sitdown strikers last year for refusal to evacuate the plant of the Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. at North Chicago until police drove them out with tear gas bombs. “The seizure and detention of property was illegal,” the

Court asserted in a strongly worded |

opinion, The judges concurred in the lower Court’s opinion that refusal of the strikers to evacuate the Fansteel works in compliance with an injunction was contempt of court, The Wagner act takes no precedence over a State court of equity in a labor dispute, the Appellate Court held. The strikers and organizers were

it was not certain that the House | arbitrary valuation may be made arrested by the Lake County sheriff

would act this week. They plan to lay the bill aside temporarily tomorrow so that the | conference report on the $5,330,000,000 tax bill for 1938—approved yesterday by the Senate—can be considered. The recovery bill appropriates lending and spending funds direct to the agencies which will handle them. This differs from the practice of previous years when lump sum | appropriations were made to the | President for allocation. The bill provides for a total of | $3.054,425,000 in all, $2,519.425,000 in | appropriations and $535,000,000 mn | appropriations. Other items in the President's | program include 100 million dollars in highway aid and 37 million dollars in flood control projects already enacted, $1.500,000,000 for RFC loans and 50 million dollars for the CCC which are now pending and 300 million for slum clearance, a total of $1987,000,000 not included in Rep. Taylor's bill. The appropriation bill is divided into three titles. The first appropriates $1,529,425 000, chiefly for the (Turn to Page Three)

hy the assessor, and the 1938 taxes | based upon it. Total valuation is expected to ap- | proximate the 1937 figure, he said. Last year’s total, personal and real estate, was $330,225,620. Of this, | real estate and improvements ac- | counted for $302,365900. The rest | was in personal property. Next Monday is the deadline for | returns, he added. The assessor's office in the Court House basement is to remain open until 6 p. m. daily, | he said, to enable persons who work | to file their returns late in the day. | Present indications, he said, are | that business valuations may be | slightly less than last year. He at-

| tributed this to the current reces- |

sion, saying that many businesses | had smaller amount of merchan- | dise than last year. He added that | quite a few small business houses | have closed during the past vear. Increases were reported in the | number of dogs and dog license | fees. Last year, 7042 dogs were reported, and $7672 paid in fees. So far this year, 9292 dogs have been reported, and $10,000 paid in fees. Total lists received last year, he | said, were 63,031, as against 60,529 received this year.

FATHER THANKS DOCTOR WHO RE

Dr. Herman Colan (left), Chicago dentist. shaking hands with Dr. Robert Colan agreed to the operation in which the left eye of his baby daughter, Between the men is Colan’s attorney, Sette Sothuen.

Y’'S EYE .

MOVED BAB

H. Good (right) after Dr. victim of glioma, was removed

GRANDMOTHER BREAKS

Mrs. Lillian Hershman, maternal grandmother,

INTO TEARS

13 months ago for refusing to heed an inunction to surrender the plant The plant had been closed by Illinois’ first sitdown strike which ended when police and Sheriff's deputies, employing a wooden “‘battle tower” mounted on a truck, fired hundreds of tear gas projectiles into the plant and drove the strikers out. The Lake County Circuit Court convicted those arrested and sentenced them to fines and jail terms for contempt.

G.10. Union Members Help Break Sitdown

SOUTH BEND, May 10 (U. P) Members of the United Automobile

| Workers’ Union, affiliated with the | tion of a

C. I. O, helped break a half-hour sitdown strike by an independent union at the Bendix Home Appliance Co. plant today. The U. A. W. has a contract with the company outlawing all sitdown strikes.

NEEDY TO GET 100 TONS OF DRY MILK

Distribution of 200,000 pounds of dry skimmed milk to the state's needy was announced today by the Governor's Commission on Unemployment Relief. The milk was received from the Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. Earl C. Wayland, director of distribution, said the milk is powdered and contains all butter fat. He said the distribution

would aid the milk producer and the

unemploved alike.

FALSE REPORT ISSUED | ON POPE’S CONDITION

VATICAN CITY, May 10 (U. P). | —False reports that

Pope Pius XI was dead here for half an hour today. Officials were deluged with tele- |

his circulated

milk solids but |

Holiness |

imes-Acme Telephotos. weeping at the hos-

pital as doctors prepared to remove the baby’s left eye. Dr. Morris Hershman, her husband, is comforting her,

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Vatican, that the Holy Father was well.

FAIR WEATHER TO STAY

TEMPERATURES ivy 3% 10 a m. 2 Nam... 56 12 (Noon). 58 1pm...

The Weather Bureau today predicted tonight and tomorrow will be fair without much change in temperature,

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head, are considering a series ‘of safety plays for children | . ‘this summer,

Chief Morrissey said the ine crease of motorcycle force from 27 to 33 men was made possible by the purchase of 10 additional cycles early this year and the installation | of traffic signals at several intersece tions. " | Despite the increased force, Chief Morrissey said he considered it “far from adequate.”

“Need 75,” Chief Says

“To patrol Indianapolis properly | we should have at least 75 or 80 motorcycle officers,” he said. The plays, in which vacationing pupils are to participate, are intended to keep children out of the streets and away from dangerous surroundings in their summer rece reation activities. Mr. Evans said school officials would also stress to parents advane tages of promoting safe hobbies for school boys and girls this summer, Lieut. McCarty said every effort would again be made to prevent gangs of children playing in the streets or at places where recreation was not supervised. Police will be asked to keep a close watch on unguarded bathing beaches and Fall Creek “swimming holes” where swimming is forbidden,

A Big Problem

Prevalence of accidents of all types during summer vacations 1s | now “one of the biggest problems of | school officials and parents,” Mr, Evans said. “Through education, supervision (of play, and with the aid of police | and parents we hope to keep sume | mer accidents at a minimum,” Mr, | Evans said. During the school year 1936-37, 52 per cent of accidents involving | school children occurred at une supervised playgrounds and vacant lots. Mr. Evans said in the summer, | when every day is devoted to play, |such accidents increase greatly, | Only five per cent of injuries to | children occur going to and from | school, he said The Safety Board at its meeting (today approved the following proe | posals for presentation to the City Council Placing stop and go sige nals in 24-hour service on May 28, | 20 and 30; making 17th St. one way | west bound between Meridian and [ Illinois Sts.; making Illinois St, | preferential over 22d St.; installae stop and go signal at {Clifton and 20th Sts, and the removal of left turn signs at Meridian {and Pennsylvania Sts. on New York

| St.

Nine Are Fined $46; Two Hurt Slightly

{ Nine of the 51 motorists arrested (by police on traffic violation | charges paid fines and costs totaling | $46 in Municipal Court today. Seve (eral had their cases continued, while | the rest were to face charges this | afternoon. | Two persons were injured slightly [in accidents overnight. Wallace N. Craven, 3, of 1634 Car« rollton Ave. was treated at City | Hospital for bruises. He was knocked | unconscious, police reported, when struck by a machine driven by David Bowman, 18, of 1809 Belle fontaine St. Mr. Bowman said the [ chiid ran from between two cars in | front of his home, into the side of his machine. Herman Powell, | Capitol Ave, was struck and knocked down by a hit-and-run driver at 23d and Talbott Sts. today, receiving only a small scratch on | his hand. He reported to police the license number of the car that struck him,

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phone calls until word was received | from Castel Gandolfo, the summer |

Drivers’ License Sale Shows Increase

The practice of some families buying only one auto operator's lie | cense for several drivers apparently has been halted by the new State | safety laws, Mark Rodenbeck, ase sistant Auto License Bureau Come missioner, said today. Departmental figures show thas 1,003,128 drivers licenses had been sold wp to May 1, an increase of 59.« 123 over the corresponding period last year, .

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